Strength: Back Squat 2-2-2-2-2
Metcon – 9 Rounds For Time:
5 Thrusters (95/65)
25 Double Unders
*15 Minute Cap
One of my favorite things about coaching teens is the energy they bring to the room. Today was no exception. Most of them returned to school this week and had a lot of energy stored up transitioning from summer life to sitting in the classroom for most of the day.
Steve's Club is where they come to release it all. An escape path to get away from it all. An outlet to channel their stress, emotions, highs and lows of everyday life.
It is an adventure to be a part of it this wonderful community and I'm very grateful to watch these kids grow, interpersonally and physically, each and every day.
The greatest discovery any outsider could make about Camden is it's overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE).
Every year they pass more laws, hire more police, build more prisons, and sentence more offenders for longer periods-all without moving one inch closer to “ending” crime. If it didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they spend more money on schools, hoping to “fix” whatever’s wrong with them, and every year the schools remain stubbornly unfixed. Spending money didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they try to make the criminals go away, and every year they remain with us. We couldn’t shoehorn these criminals back into the “the mainstream” last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Maybe its time to TRY something DIFFERENT.
Afterall, IF Camden is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Much of my inspiration comes from Daniel Quinn in "Ishmael."
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